Pierre Gaspard Chaumette

Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (24 May 1763-13 April 1794) was a politician of the French First Republic during the French Revolution. He was executed during the Reign of Terror in 1794.

Biography
Pierre Gaspard Chaumette was born in Nevers, France on 24 May 1763 to a family of shoemakers, and he pursued a career in medicine. At the start of the French Revolution, he became a spokesman for the Cordeliers and the sans-culottes, taking part in the 10 August 1792 insurrection. On 31 October 1792, he was elected President of the Paris Commune, and he pushed for Louis XVI of France's death, blaming him for the economic troubles that France was facing. In 1793, Chaumette and Jacques Hebert chaired the tribunal that prosecuted the Girondins, and he became known as a leader of the radical socialist Enrages. He sought to achieve fair redistribution of wealth, abolition of Christianity, and universial suffrage, and his ultra-radical views led to Maximilien Robespierre turning against the Enrages and Hebertists. In the spring of 1794, he was accused of being a counterrevolutionary, and he was guillotined on 13 April 1794 alongside several other major opposition leaders.